How to use ssh-agent in windows in python?

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Sun May 26 12:27:24 EDT 2019


On 2019-05-26 15:55, Fc Zwtyds wrote:
> Hi,
>     I am using cygwin on Windows 8.1. These two commands work fine in cygwin:
> ssh-agent -s
> ssh-add ~/.ssh /id_rsa
>     I tried to use them on windows cmd and it worked fine. Now I am going
> to use python to write code to implement the above command.
> os.system('ssh-agent -s')
> os.system('ssh-add id_rsa')
> There was an error:
> Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
> 
> Thank you and your time.
> 
The string that you passed to the second os.system differs from the 
second command on the command line. Is that the cause?



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